As YouTube Purges Gun Videos, Shooters Move to… Pornhub??

As online video giant YouTube continues to delete more and more gun-related content, it’s only natural that makers of gun videos would seek a new place to park their content for the world to enjoy, but this is nuts. At least one gun channel, InRangeTV, has officially created a new channel on Pornhub.

Yeah, that’s right. Perhaps no gun video will ever be safe for work again.

We first heard it on this reddit post, which touts the smut bucket as having “a massive content delivery network for rather obvious reasons” and notes that “the company hosting probably 95% of streaming porn to the WWW in all sorts of fetishes would [hopefully] have a hard line on free speech/censorship.”

Ummmmmm…

As I see it, this cannot be a smart move. I mean, YouTube is essentially saying gun videos are socially unacceptable and boorish. We know that’s not true, but hosting our videos on a pornography site is pretty much an admission that yeah, guns are low-brow stuff that should only be viewed in the dark.

Are there no other alternatives out there? Why hasn’t anyone created a truly American video hosting service, which stands for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, sans pornography?

Anyhow, I just see this as a bad move for anyone legit who decides to move their stuff to PH. What do you think?

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.